Co-Conspirators Not Allies and Calling Into Work Black — The Weekly reFRESH

July 8, 2016

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Edited by Mara Meyers

It’s been a week, y’all. We’re grappling with the value (or lack thereof) of a Black life in America, supporting those who call in Black to work, and understanding why the diversity problem in tech runs much deeper than quotas.

Mychal Denzel Smith’s book Invisible Man Got the Whole World Watching is admired for it’s self-awareness, vulnerability, and call to dismantle the masculinity myth in this New York Times review.

Girls love to code in NYC. Reshma Saujanireveals why this passion for technology is really a drive to change the world.

Speaker Spotlight: Julie Zeilinger is a young feminist with a capital F. Even though she authored two books before the age of 20, she’s not intimidating in the least, and she’s an expert at calling people of all ages into the feminist movement.

While parents of Black children are forced to have deeply painful conversations about safety and self-care, Courtney Martin, offers a different kind of conversation that as a white parent she sees as equally necessary.